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SEPTEMBER IS, A90<T, THE SUNNY SOUTH THIRT) RAGE • | { Gun = Maker IQrupp's Daughters, I j Two Odd Animal Stories 11 GREAT STOVE OFFER * i World's Richest Women Turn Down Fortune-Seekers for Poor Husbands THIS BEAR ACQUIRED A JAG AMD PROCEEDED TO APPLY RED PAINT LAVISHLY. OOR men nre to spend the Krupp millions. The daughters of the famous Essen gunmaker are both to marry the men of their hearts, and as frequently happens In romance, the wealth Is all on one side. The weddings of Bar bara and Bertha will take place at the same time. The engagements were announced almost simul taneously. First came the statement that Miss Bertha would wed Baron Gustave Bohlen von Holbach, first secretary of the Vatican. Scarcely had the surprise over this an nouncement died out before it was fol lowed with the news that -Miss Barbara had plighted her troth to Tilo V. Wil- mowskii, no more generously endowed in this world’s goods than his future broth er-in-law. Germany has had no bigger sensation in years. The wedding- of either of these girls to a poor man would have been a matter of comment, for the Krupps are only a step removed from royalty. The stern military spirit of the kaiser always went out in admiration to the head of the house that has turned out Barbara Krupp. lermany’s best machinery of war in a Jentu-ry, and it was his thought to marry the daughters of the late Frederick Al bert Krupp to two of the biggest men 4n the realm, preferably distinguished members of the army. His plans go awry, not only once, but twice, but much as it loves William, the fatherland rejoices in the simplicity of the two sisters who have had the courage to marry from preference rather ‘than for more money or improved social posi tion. Miss Bertha Is the older of the two girls, and It ha3 been said that she is the wealthiest maiden In the world. On the death of her father she came into the.biggest share of the estate, and al though she Is barely of age, she rules the immenge plant which employs about 40,000 men and gives the town of Essen a population of 200,000. Candidates noble and wealthy have swarmed to the Krupp mansion with one or the other of the daughters for a magnet, but neither would listen to any of the aspirants till Von Holbach and WUmowskl appeared. TWO YEARS’ ROMANCE. The love story of the baron and the "Queen of Essen," as 5,1-10 Is often called, hegan at Rome In 1904. While attending to his duties at the legation, Bohlen met the lovely Miss Krupp, who was spend ing the winter In the Eternal City. The baron extended the courtesies that Interior View of Oreat Krupp Gun Works. would be expected of a diplomat to a , lady of first importance In Ills own coun try, But he da*-e give no sign that his affections had led him to -the point where ! Ills happiness and that of Miss Krupp 1 wore indissolubly bound together. Whnt right had lie to aspire that I high? j There was much that was creditable j In his record. He -could trace his family j hack to tho twelfth century, his father | had been minister to the Hague, and j through a long test at Strassburg and Heidelberg, Bohlen had : shown himself a man of ability. His ad- j vancemon-t in the army had been speedy. : j He -began in the Second Baden Dragoon • i Regiment I, and later entered the Baden ; j state service. j From there he Jumped bo the staff of ! | the German foreign office, becoming in j 1899 one of the secretaries of the tm- | perial German legation in Washington, I | and in 1903 he served In a similar ca- j I pacity In Pekin. Then he was promoted | to the office of first secretary of the i Prussian legation to the Vatican. This was promotion and rapid promo- j tion, with apparently still better things awaiting him, but it was not money. And certainly It was not to be expected i that the daughter of all the Krupp mil lions would contemplate an alliance with a man who had nothing but his salary, no matter how eminent might have been the service to the state of himself or his ancestors. He overlooked one fact. The Krupps | had not always had wealth. The marvel ous fortune had built itself up out of hard, honest work, and the heads of the family from the great grandfather down had not hid, but had rather rejoiced in the faot that their own genius carved out their wealth. Democratic ways of living always marked the Kruipps, and despite all her millions, Miss Bertha lived very mod estly in her Villa Huegel. INDIFFERENT TO SOCIETY. Society appealed little to her, and she refused the social prestige that the friendship of the emperor and empress would win her in Berlin, and chose rather to stay in Essen, where she could j look after the great enterprise her father left. Worship of that family skill in gunmaking, which attained its fame in the Prussian success of the war of 1870-1871. is very strong in Miss Bertha, and she delighted to be always in sight of the monument to her father, on which no less a person than Wilhelm himself thought it not beneath his dig nity to lay a wreathe. There was plenty to hold her atten tion, for the plant, modestly begun in 1818 by Edward Krupp, has expanded to a point where it has become a city in itself. The statistics of the works, given in totals, are astonishing. The Essen plant, which has an area of 890 acres, burns 1,700,000 tons of coal a year. There are In use 6,300 machine tools, 22 rolling mills, I4l steam hammers, 63 hydraulic presses, two of them bending pieces of 7,000 tons each, and 591 cranes of varying power. Then there are 60 miles of normal gauge railway, 16 tank engines, 712 cars, and 32 miles of narrow gauge railway, 27 locomotives and 1,209 car sovereign the name was changed to von Bohlen and Halbach. Gustav von Boh len und Halbach lives In the Grand Duchy of Baden-Baden. Whenever the Bohlens from Philadelphia go aborad they have always visited the home of llieir kinsman who will marry the j daughter of the great German iron | master. SHOOK FORTUNE HUNTERS. 1 Miss Barbara Krupp did not wait long i after her sister to make the announce- LauuBanne. | men t that a second disappointment was in store for the fortune tiunters who had been cherishing the fond delusion that they might come into the Krupp money. Barbara lias only about one- half as much money as Bertha, for when Krupp died he split his fortune one-half to Bertha, and one-half to bo divided between his widow and Bar bara, but as he left $400,000,000, It will be seen that there is still enough to keep the wolf away from the Wilniowski family. Miss Barbara's husband is deeply in terested in the philanthropic relations that exist between the owners of the Krupp factories and their workmen. The income fom the works might be N a ridge of mountains back of the Big 'Indian and not far from this village, where the late Jay Guuld served his first clerkship. Is a small lake that ha-s for many years been fa mous for its speckled trout. The lake is stir- rounded by a dense forest and has rocky shores. Out of the lake flows a small trout stream, which soon becomes a river and is called the Delaware, [t is not on this ! lake but along the coarse, of this brook i that the scene of this story Is laid. About a mile or so down stream Is tho farm of Mrs. Joy, supposed to be more ( than ninety years old, who lives there - carefully cared for by her two sons, - who look os old as herself. Both ore 1 bachelors. This used to be a great county for i bears, but now there are few here abouts. The hest bear story of this sec- I lion is that told by Mrs. Joy. The old j laf-^. wrois ns bright as a newly- I minted dollar, tells the story with A 1 qualntness that Is Impossible to repro- • duce In type. HUNTED FOR IRISH WORMS. "A few weeks ago," she says, "some city fofks cum up here and wanted to | stay a few days fur tho troutln', which was purty good down through ihe j woods. They had the greatest lot of j baskets, fish poies. lines and wadin’ j boots that you ever see, and wns sottln' i great store on gettin' a mess of fish to j s'pripe their folks with down to New i York. | "Wall, they Just begged and argyfied so much, promisin' not to he no trouble, that 1 finally agreed to allow them to stay a spell, tollin' 'em, of course, that we never took no boarders nohow, and they'd just have to fare like my men folks if they cum. They agreed to that and afore I knowed It had their things i into the spare room and was out in the I garden a-diggin' tip my cucumber vines, J huntin' arter fish wums. Pretty soon | they got enough on 'em and started off, | bent on havin’ a great time troutln'. ! "Havin' city convp'ny fur dinner j seemed a lectio strange, hut T knowed j that Bill and Toni, my boys, would help i me out parin’ taters, keepin' the brick j oven hot and cleanin' garden pass. CHASED BY MOTHER BEAR. ' "I ttseter sort o' pride myself on my cookin’ fifty years ago, when me and my | man fust corned to this .part of the ken- try, an' my pies was tho talk of the town in them days. So 1 just told the children that I'd show them town chaps what cookin' really was, fur I don't suppose they’d ever eat a decent sody biscuit or had a bit of real cow's cream in their lives. •• ’Gong about noon Bill he spied them * * MARE GIVES BATTLE TO PACK OF WOLVES IN DEFENSE OF HER OFFSPRINO. handsome, 1907 modol, full nickel trim med, full size, 6-hole steel ranee, exactly S3 Illustrated, omptete w,*t| big doap porcelain lined reservoir, high thelt. rearming closet. ;tT. Very much lower prices If you dn not need the reservoir, Fhclf or worming closet. All shown in our big. free, new, marvelously lew pocss Isecisl »!•*« Cauls***. trim in this extar baautlfully * yfnloksl h*s vy •Msl range, our ACME RENOWN, exactly aslllustrated, complete with deep porcelain lined reser voir. high back, shelf, warming closet, etc. Very mucb lo w e r reservoir, ehel This shows a great reduc tion In price front whnt appears In the blgi . . you have. Price r, on stoves are abown In our big. tree Special Stove buys t h I « * our ACME TRI UMPH. the highest Catalogue. $22.58 fellers jut a runnin’ acrost the pasture grealer were It not for the fact that j ] ot am i a-comin’ fur the house like all death, says I, ‘what's look like you'd many philan- benefit of the Tilo V. Wilmowski, Shortly to Wed Barbara Krupp. the proprietor carries oi •thropic schemes for the workmen. Practically the whole city of Essen is the property of Miss Krupp, its fire men. its police or watchmen are all in her employ. These two services, in which about 900 men are employed, hat e been alluded to as her “army." The churches, hospitals, libraries, homes, are all supplied by the Krupp works. There are insurance and pension societies to which the workmen contrib ute, a saving fund in which they put their little surpluses, and to all of these the “firm” gives every year us much as the workmen combined. Stores and slaughter houses are oper ated by the "firm," in which food and apparel are sold as cheaply as possible, and the profits put into some channel where the workmen can share it. While Baron Bohlen is aiding in the con telegraph system ofi duct ° f tlle business, so as to increase possessed. They didn' wait fur no gale, but Just jumped the stone wall like dee" and tore on to the back stoop all sort of winded and lookin' scairt •Fur Massy sakes. Joys,’ | the. matter with ye.’ Ye i seen a ghost.’ ; •* 'Thank goodness.' sez the biggest on 1 ’em, ‘we are -hero at last. We’ve had a turrlble time on’t bein' chased by an old, she bear. Here's her cub,' lie sez, and | stoopin’ down lie just shook a little black | l’ellcr out of his shooting coat pocket and , put it Into my lap. 1 never see such a 1 cute little critter in all my born days j and you bet i was tip and into the but tr'y and a feedin' of him quicker’n wink- Wall, soon as they got breaths the boys told their story ontt said: STRUCK BY TROUT HOLE. “ ‘it was this way, Mrs. Joy,’ he says, we waded through that old cedar swamp j follerin’ the compass like the. boys told us. ami finally we come to the prettiest i lake ever von see. W e didn t have no l,oat or raft or nothin’ to go fishin' with, | SO we just tried oft the rocks for a white. We could get nothin' there but a few little bull pout and some rock bass. ••‘Wall, it was a good, while before we struck good troutin’, but finally we came to some big woods near a ridge, and | the sn 11E maternal love In tho lumb brute creation Is sometimes strongly mark ed, and I was witness some years ago to an act of devotion on the part of an animal that Impressed me most deeply, and if you think the story Is worth hearing I’ll tell It to you." Benjamin Armstrong, a cotton elasser employed in a Vicksburg firm, sat with a group of friends In the corridor of Ihe Grunewald hotel ono night not long ago, end-ns horses, dogs, cats arid other quad rupeds best known to domestic life wera the subject of conversation, Mr. Arm strong took advantage of the occasion to relate a rather unusual tale. “I was reared on a ranch in west Texas, you know," Mr. Armstrong be gan his story, when the group hod dho- -rufied a des'ro to hear, tho yarn, "and I remember well one of the prise posse*, elans of nty father was a bay maro oallod Brownie, Brownie was cleanly built, with limbs made for running; shr had ft long sweep of tall and a great flowing mnnp, nnd altogether was ono of the pretl lest horses 1 hnd ever looked upon, She was used only for light work, such us bearing my fnth«r on her bank when Ihe old gentleman wanted lo have a look around »! things, and us n filer her equal 1 don't bollevu existed In nil the country* side, LOVE LAVISHED ON HER OOLT, "When Brownie became a mother she w.-is so proud of her baby that she would hardly allow any one to enter the fenced lot adjoining the atables where she wns confined, and if a person—with the in ception, perhaps, o-f my father—dared to approach to inspect the colt she would prance around angrily, toss her head In the air, work her upper lip, showing a row of solid grlndprs, nna kick up her heels energetically, "Xemo, the colt, hardly repaid the love his mother lavished upon him, and the little rascal's chief delight was to slip and scamper away for a chase on the prairie. At these times Browne woul.i almost throw a fit in her anxiety and, trotting about over the lot, she would arouse the whole place with her whinny ing. "Brownie’s iwhlnnying always resulted in some of the men being sent out on mettlesome ponies (o bring the truant Nemo home again, not that it was feared the colt would he lost, hut because of the presence of coyotes on the plains. “The coyotes were very bad in that lo cality in the day of which I speak, and roaming the outlying reaches in packs, at times worked havoc among the stock. A colt like Nemo wouldn’t have had a chance with the beasts which bold and a kain father came out and examined desperate from ltungrer. were' rcadv to i hern , thoroughly The only Injury to be ... , , , 1 •' 10 found on either horse was a long scratch attack anything tint came the1 r way, | on Brownie's left flank. 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You can learn _^ll about the valuable articles we_B<»nd you^ free.^ *»nd for our Stove Cattlogue. Address, all about the valuable articles we send you iree. you can learn all about lllf you SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO*. CH3CACO ^contort by wolves anti based across the plain. Ijiiekilv. Brown- m,™ on, of ,h. m.n „ i! £*"S-fST' ’SS door to bring in some straw for the stalls, struck the trail, and. no doubt both arid bounding into tile lot he loped away horses instinctively sought the edge of under the bar and dashed out to the un-! the thick belt of woods as affording the inviting plain. j best place for a stand against the enemy. "Brownie wns „ i Although (he coyotes didn't get Nemo. , . ! a “ ei * 11,n a shot, j t) 1P experience was too much for the nu. the barrier stopped the mare's course colt and, contracting a severe case of and she could not get out of the lot. But! pneumonia, lie died In less than a week. £j with a wonderful sagacity and before she! Brownie grieved for months over her loss their 1 could be prevented, she / and finally her teeth ment of Ii in its socl leased froi fell to the ! * n 'j ^V 1 , a d, uic , k sic| e move- I'fpnT*iier’ that, one of t i sh.ipt-ly head slipped it back Upon to end her misery ’t» and the end ot the beam re- one section of Its support,! round and Brownie leaping; she met a tragic end. A train struck her and so badly he men was called with a rifle ball." Orleans Picayune. bar. gained her freedom, nit had a good start and only outline could be scon *: the moving through the hazy mist d begun to fall. But Brownie she knew instinctively the course her unruly offspring had taken and - she followed It with unerring precision. By the time the men had saddled up and made ready to go out after the runaway ! and his mother both horses were out of j sight, but their lioofprints were clear in ‘ and the trail an easy one to there wits a wliopptn’ big hole by a fiat | take uft. rock, where we sat and kept ketcliin' BROWNIE’S WHINNY HEARD, trout till we was satisfied. They was all j “The cowboys—four of them, as I am good, big fellers and it seemed like all the , told afterward— galloped across the prai- brook was in that cold | rip for a Rno(1 half ho|u . hpfore th 31 stations, 51 miles of wire, exchang ing 200,000 messages annually with the I imperial telogTaph at Essen, and a tele phone system of 224 miles of wire. At Meppen is the proving ground. It is 15 1-2 miles long and 3 miles wide. ! There nearly 25,000 shots are fired each year to test projectiles and armor, for , both are made at Essen. The other groups comprising the works aret equal, j ly extensive. i This vast enterprise yielded Miss j Krupp an Income of $5,000,000 a year, j but this huge sum did not make her j less eensltve to Cupid's dart than a girl | who worked in a mill. The biron had ; won a way into her affections, and she - deftly let him understand that it was the revenues, the other husband, Wil- ntowski, will be aiding in the distribution of a part among deserving workmen. THE GALLANT DOCTOR. "Do you think it will take, doctor?" asked the charming young girl who had Just been vaccinated. "Well,” replied the gallant doctor, "if it doesn't take on an arm as pretty as that I'll have no respect for vaccine hereafter.” Antoinette Bertha Krupp, Richest Young Woman in the World not her plan to permit wealth to stand as a barrier between them. With this encouraging information gained, Bohlen quickly pressed his stilt, and was accepted. It is understood that he will quit the diplomatic service in order to assist in j the management of the Krupp plant. | The baron has American connections ! to whom_ he paid many courtesies while j he was here in Washington as a repre- / sentatlve of his government. General W. H. C. Bohlen. who was | killed at Bull Run. was a first cousin : of the lute John Bohlen, father of Fran- i els H. Bohlen. Robert M. Bohlen and D. j Murray Bohlen, of Philadelphia. The daughter o' General Bohlen mar- ! rled one of her German kinsmen, Gus tav Halbach, and by permission of their 1 Gustav Von Bohlen Engaged to Marry Miss Krupp. fish in that air brook was in that spring hole near the old cave. £• many wo got grub-struck and Jack he allotted it was lunch time. -go we sot down on a big mossy log and spread some newspapers and green leaves on the old fiat rock. We had opened a pint flask of somethin' good and was proceedin’ to eat when what did I see ittst across the little brook but a baby bear a walkin’ along just as sassy a, could be. In less than a minute we was arter the critter, and 1 claimed I got. Caere first. •• -\\'e didn’t have much time to arglty, fur just then we heard the old bear n-cotnin’ and a-thrashin' through t ae bresh down bv the blackberry vims and we just lit out. Will he begged me to drop the cub, which kept a squalln- like a pig an’ a tollin' the old un on ft" fast as we went. 1 just couldn’t drop the little -feller, and managed to shut off his yellin' nuff to enable us to escape, and iwe kept on a runnin’ and finally got here.’ '• 'Well. I sez, boys you’d better have yer dinner. Mebby my sons will fix i:p the old musket and go huntin' with you this arfernoon.’ So they agreed to do this, and wrassled with my dinner, which was just on the table, and said it vtas the finest meal they ever eat. Could not be beat In Fifth avynoo, they said. "They 'peared to like my new bread and the chicken pie and strawberry shortcake pretty well, anyhow. So afte. dinner mv boys got ail ready and they looked pretty smart for fellers more than 65 years old'. There was quite a passe! of titan folks went along with their hound dogs, guns and things, and I told 'em that it would lie a hard day fur that bear farnbly if they got arter it. "The party hadn'fc gone m"ie than •: mile when they met a little boy runnin’ toward ’em iwith his hair jest a standli’ on end and his eyes as big as sassers, an' sez he. 'I was fishin' the brook down just now an' wlien 1 got out there bv the flat rock 1 seen an old bear .prancin' around with a bottle in her -paw. She was eatin' sandwiches biled eggs and things and was all tangled up with fish lines and the fishpoles was just a flyin' erottnd like everything. 1 was so scart I lit right out, and here I be.’ “Well, th’* men all goes back with the boy and find what he said was a'i straight. The old bear >'«<! natchexly been there and eaten the lunch, she'd opened the bottle of whisky and drank it all up. You could see paper scattered around a-r.d fishpoles broken and tiwistel to pieces and the line lyin' about. "The men looked for that bar and pm their dogs on the track, but never an aniniile could they find. Mebby she for got all about her young un after swal- lerin’ down all that lleker. I don't won- oer that air boy was scared out of a year’s growth. "He always stuck to it that the old bear was drunk and standin' there with the bottle in her paw when be first saw iter, and we hev idlers believed him. 'cause we found that ete bottle empty and the lunch eaten by the bear. I am a -professor of religion, and you can coun «‘>n this story bein’ gospel true."—New York Pres*. LJTNflOIiN’S PERSONAL FRESFNcej* (From The St. Nicholas.) For many years it has been the fashion to call Mr. Lincoln homely. He was very- tall and very thin. His eyes were deep sunken, his skin of a sallow pallor, his hair eoarse. black and unruly. Yet he was neither ungraceful nor awkwadd nor ugly. His large features fitted his large frame, and his large hands and feet were hut right on a body that measured 6 feet 4 inches. His was a. sad and thoughtful face, ey came i and from boyhood he had carried load up with the missing horses. As they rode I of care. It is small wonder that when they could hear in the uncertain distance j alone or a'bsorbed In thought the face ahead of them the faint whinnying of a! should take on deep lines, the eyes ap- horse. The whinnying, they knew, was; pear its if seeing something beyond the Brownie’s but there was terror, the sug-j vlBlon 0 f other men, and the shoulders gestion of an appeal conveyed in the j stoop, as though they, too, were bearing found. Once or twice, when the men had' a v.-eight. But in a moment all would rode farther, they heard a weaker whin- j p e changed. The deep eyes would flash, n.ving. which they took to be Nemo’s cry, or twinkle merrily with humor, or look and then came to their ears the unmis- out from un( ier overhanging brows as takeable yapping bark of coyotes. “The they lli( , lipr>n the Five "Points children wolves have got them horses,’ Bill) kind , Iest gentleness. Springer, an Indian fighter and an old-! go too )n public speaking. When his time plainsman, who was leading the | ta „ ' bodv ’ rose to ita full height, with searchers, yelled above the sob and| head tbrown bac k and his face trans- whistle of the winters wind and the ! , ... anmMtnPflq n f 1 T riders urged their steeds forward to re-i fl * fUred with the 1,re aml earn f stne38 of both neweci effort. j his thought, he would answer Douglas In “Sleet was falling about this time and \ the high, clear tenor that came to him through the flying specks of ice and dusk j i n the heat of debate, carrying his ideas of approaching night the men say about j s far out over listening crowds. And half a mile off a small patch of timber. , . , , ,, - The sounds that now came to them were! 'ater, during the . e rs of . . , of a most alarming character. The bark-j he pronounced with noble gravity the ing of the wolves rose in a chorus, but ! words of his famous addresses, not one above this was the wild, piercing neigh of i j n tbe throngs that heard hitn could a horse facing death. That's an awful] that he was other than a sound. I heard it once when a stable In ' •' } Dallas was burning and God granj that 1 i handsome man. never hear it again. The neigh becomes: It has 'been the fashion, too, to say almost a shriek of horror that the human I that he was slovenly and careless In his voice can hardly express and flinty, in deed, must be the heart that that plaint of woe does not touch. MARE FACES HOWLING PACK OF! COYOTES. "The riders dashed ahead and in a few j minutes came upon a stirring picture, j Brownie was over against the trees a-nd I half hidden by a black shadow east by ! the timber belt was little Nemo. In low. j crouching attitude, with tails dragging | In the seven or eight big coyotes were closing in on the horses and It was dress. This also is a mistake. His clothes could not fit smoothly on his gaunt and bony frame. He was no tailor's figure of a man; but from the first he clothed himself as well as his means allowed, and in the fashion of the MENELIK A KING. (Robert Skinner, in The Independent.) Perhaps the most interesting of reign ing kings is Menelik of Abyssinia. He was born in 1842 and claims to be the descendant of the Queen of Sheba, whose own son, of the same name, was reputed to be the son of Solomon. The visitor to the capital of what Mene lik has made a united Abyssinia Is agree ably surprised to find himself -traveling over smooth and well-constructed rok-ls. The imperial palace occupies the crest of a hill and dominates the whole city. Standing in garden grounds inclosed by a ! thatched stone wall, it comprises a num- j ber of -buildings, to which access is ob tained by traversing several courtyards and a spacious campus, where are sta tioned the only body of regularly Euro pean trained troops in the Ethiopian army. A wide doorway of Indian design admits the newcomer to the audience hall, a large hal“-chttrchlike structure, with a roof supported by timber bridge work, at the far end of which stands the throne. The floor is covered with oriental rugs, mixed with certain products of French and German looms. Back of the lines formed by tho -pillars are -massed on cere monial occasions, in either aisle, hundreds of the chief people of the capital dressed in many- colored raiment. The throne itself is a sort of divan, and occupies a platform surmounted by a gilded canopy, the gift of France. At re- : ceptions eaclt side of it Is defended by : two young princes with guns, while be- I hind and around are grouped the minis ters. judges and officers of the court. 3 The first impression made by the em- j peror Is a distinctly pleasing one. Hi* i face is full of intelligence nad his man- , tiers are those of a gentleman no Ds* than of a king. He sits In oriental fash- ; ion, his legs crossed and his arms sus tained by two cushions. He wears as outer garment a red velvet : mantle, which affords glimpses of a snowy white underclothing, and about his J head is wound a white handkerchief. Dia- t monii eardrops hang at either cheek, and . hands are adorned with rings. x To converse with the stranger he makes use of his private secretary, who is also his interpreter, since he speaks no other language than that of Abyssinia. Soma scraps of French he can, upon occasion, ' employ apropos, and to an English- ( speaking -person he will, as a compliment, say a "howdo.” The emperor's thirst for Information 1* j phenomenal, and his knowledge of other l countries is more considerable than ona might imagine from the meager sources 1 at his disposal. He can discourse on •the Fnited States' recent war with Spain, and more summarily on the war of lnde- 1 pendence with Great Britain. President Roosevelt he has evidently - learned a good deal about, and seems to tesque stories of his boyhood, of the Lall stripling whose trousers left exposed a length of shin, it must be remembered not only how poor he was. but that he I lived on the frontier, where other boys j less poor were scarcely better clad. | In Vandalia the blue jeans he wore j was the dress of his companions as well, j and later, from Springfield days on, clear ] through Ills presidency. Ills cos :me was of the animals. j the usual suit of black broadcloth, care- "When the coyote circle was drawn too 1 fully made and scrupulously neat. He tight rhe -would dash forward and with I cared nothing for style. It did not mat- rapid kicks drive the snarling brutes | ter to him whether the man with whom back, and the only sound emitted was J lie talked wore a coat of the latest cut the deep, wheezy breathing noise, the \ or owner no coat at all. It was tile result of overexertion. One of the coyotes : man inside the coat that interested him. lay motionless in the snow and, as it af- . j n j bp same way lie cared little for the terward proved, the animal's neck had ! plpasures of the’table. He ate most time and place. In reading the gro-1 b<* much- interested in his personality. from Nemo's lusty lungs that the piteous neighs issued. The mare was activity itself and w-ith leaps anil bounds to the right and to the left she endeavored to shield her frightened sort from tiie attack been broken by a kick from Brownie's t solid hind hoofs. "The cowboys were afraid to fire at the coybte=. the horses being in range, but knowing that the brutes are cowardly nature, they drew their big ipistols and popped them off in the air. That had the desired effect, and the wolves. with itowfis and snarls. abandoned their quarry and sped into the timber, where they were lost to view. "Brownie and Nemo. both evidently glad of the timely intervention, trotted away home in front of the rescuers, and when they were both safe in the stable sparingly. He was thankful that food was good and wholesome and enough for daily needs, but he could no more enter into the mood of the epicure, for whose palate it is a matter of importance whether he eats roast goose or golden pheasant, than he could have counted tile grains of sand under the sea. “Miss Roxley's engagement to Lord Nokash was announced yesterday—’’ “Yes. but was denounced today, old man had his say about it. Having heard that the president is a sportsman, he expressed the hope of see ing him some day in Ethiopia, inquired his age and was eager -to have the story of his election narrated. The Empress Taitu rarely or never as sists at the reception of visitors, unless some public cqremony is involved abso lutely requiring her presence. She is said- to be a woman of great force of charac ter and to have been in her youth of striking beauty. She is now 47 j-ears of age .and is the daughter of a former ras of Gondar, and one of the hereditary princesses of the absorbed kingdom of Seitnen, the in habitants of which are reputed for their white skins. Several times married pre viously she -became the wife of Menelik in 1883. They have no children. Menelik calls himself "the lion of tha tribe of Judah, the cltosen of the Lord, king of kings of Ethiopia." “I hear the woman midget is going to marry the india-rubber man,” said tha living skeleton. “I wonder what she see* in him?" "Oh.” replied the obese lady, “she prob ably realized that it was a s-piendid op- i The: portunity to get a husband she could I twist around her finger,"